Oscar Nominations 2026: Full Highlights, Major Category Nominees, and What the 98th Race Looks Like Now

The Oscar nominations 2026 are officially in, setting up one of the most wide-open Best Picture races in years—and a record-setting morning for Sinners, which leads the field with 16 nominations. Close behind is One Battle After Another with 13, giving awards season a clear two-film narrative: a genre-leaning juggernaut facing a prestige heavyweight, with several international and auteur-driven challengers poised to spoil.

Winners will be revealed on Sunday, March 15, 2026.

Oscar nominations 2026: The big picture of the race

This year’s nominations underline three clear trends:

• A blockbuster-to-prestige pipeline: High-craft, large-scale films like F1 and Avatar: Fire and Ash show up strongly in technical categories, while still breaking into the Best Picture conversation.

• International strength at the top: Sentimental Value and The Secret Agent aren’t just “international feature” players—they’re present across major categories, including acting and Best Picture.

• Craft categories matter more than ever: From Cinematography to Sound to Production Design, the leading contenders are stacking nominations that can decide Best Picture when the vote splinters.

A notable update for the modern Oscars: voters must view all nominated films to be eligible to vote, reinforcing a “watch-to-vote” emphasis heading into final ballots later in the season.

Best Picture nominees (Oscar nominations 2026)

The 10 films nominated for Best Picture are:

• Bugonia

• F1

• Frankenstein

• Hamnet

• Marty Supreme

• One Battle After Another

• The Secret Agent

• Sentimental Value

• Sinners

• Train Dreams

With Sinners and One Battle After Another dominating nomination totals, this lineup still has plenty of room for momentum swings—especially as guild awards and late-break voting narratives take hold.

Major nominees in acting and directing

Directing

• Chloé Zhao — Hamnet

• Josh Safdie — Marty Supreme

• Paul Thomas Anderson — One Battle After Another

• Joachim Trier — Sentimental Value

• Ryan Coogler — Sinners

This directing group is the clearest snapshot of the year: a blend of prestige auteurs, international acclaim, and a major mainstream filmmaker whose film overperformed across categories.

Actor in a Leading Role

• Timothée Chalamet — Marty Supreme

• Leonardo DiCaprio — One Battle After Another

• Ethan Hawke — Blue Moon

• Michael B. Jordan — Sinners

• Wagner Moura — The Secret Agent

Actress in a Leading Role

• Jessie Buckley — Hamnet

• Rose Byrne — If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

• Kate Hudson — Song Sung Blue

• Renate Reinsve — Sentimental Value

• Emma Stone — Bugonia

Actor in a Supporting Role

• Benicio Del Toro — One Battle After Another

• Jacob Elordi — Frankenstein

• Delroy Lindo — Sinners

• Sean Penn — One Battle After Another

• Stellan Skarsgård — Sentimental Value

Actress in a Supporting Role

• Elle Fanning — Sentimental Value

• Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas — Sentimental Value

• Amy Madigan — Weapons

• Wunmi Mosaku — Sinners

• Teyana Taylor — One Battle After Another

Key “below-the-line” categories that could decide Best Picture

Cinematography

• Frankenstein — Dan Laustsen

• Marty Supreme — Darius Khondji

• One Battle After Another — Michael Bauman

• Sinners — Autumn Durald Arkapaw

• Train Dreams — Adolpho Veloso

Production Design

• Frankenstein

• Hamnet

• Marty Supreme

• One Battle After Another

• Sinners

Sound

• F1

• Frankenstein

• One Battle After Another

• Sinners

• Sirāt

Visual Effects

• Avatar: Fire and Ash

• F1

• Jurassic World Rebirth

• The Lost Bus

• Sinners

These categories often act like a “hidden scoreboard.” A film that consistently wins craft races—especially Sound, Editing, and Production Design—can build the kind of broad support that translates into the preferential Best Picture ballot.

Screenplay, international, animation, and music standouts

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

• Bugonia — Will Tracy

• Frankenstein — Guillermo del Toro

• Hamnet — Chloé Zhao & Maggie O’Farrell

• One Battle After Another — Paul Thomas Anderson

• Train Dreams — Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar

Writing (Original Screenplay)

• Blue Moon — Robert Kaplow

• It Was Just an Accident — Jafar Panahi (with script collaborators listed by the Academy)

• Marty Supreme — Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie

• Sentimental Value — Eskil Vogt & Joachim Trier

• Sinners — Ryan Coogler

International Feature Film

• Brazil — The Secret Agent

• France — It Was Just an Accident

• Norway — Sentimental Value

• Spain — Sirāt

• Tunisia — The Voice of Hind Rajab

Animated Feature Film

• Arco

• Elio

• KPop Demon Hunters

• Little Amélie or the Character of Rain

• Zootopia 2

Music (Original Score)

• Bugonia — Jerskin Fendrix

• Frankenstein — Alexandre Desplat

• Hamnet — Max Richter

• One Battle After Another — Jonny Greenwood

• Sinners — Ludwig Göransson

Music (Original Song)

• “Dear Me” — Diane Warren: Relentless

• “Golden” — KPop Demon Hunters

• “I Lied To You” — Sinners

• “Sweet Dreams Of Joy” — Viva Verdi!

• “Train Dreams” — Train Dreams

What happens next

With nominations now locked, the race shifts to final-phase campaigning, guild wins, and late-screening momentum. If Sinners converts its historic nomination haul into headline wins, it could steamroll. If the vote fragments, One Battle After Another, Sentimental Value, and Hamnet look positioned to benefit from broad, second-choice support.

Either way, the Oscar nominations 2026 have already delivered a clear message: this is a year where genre, international cinema, and traditional prestige all have a real path to the top prize.